Both sides will continue to discuss the matter and attempt to meet on common found in an effort to not cripple the department.

Both police associations want the residency requirement gone.

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, all officers on the force had to live within the city limits.

The requirement was billed as a way to ensure that cops were living in the area they were protecting.

However, after the storm in 2005, the City Council temporarily lifted the residency requirement, but at the end of 2012 that expired.

The council wasn’t at odds with the police associations. Both sides agreed that some type of residency requirement could be worked out, but the associations said officers who are living outside the city limits should be grandfathered in.

“My organization has a problem with the fact that you do not have to be a U.S. citizen to join the NOPD. But they want you to live in the city of New Orleans? And that just doesn't make sense,” Raymond Burkart III of the FOP said.

The full council could make a decision on the matter in the next few weeks.

Both of the organizations feel a residency requirement needs to be carefully crafted due to the declining number of officers in the city.

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